Two Singing Boys with a Lute and a Music Book

Two singing boys with a lute and a music book, c.1625 Oil on canvas, 76 x 52 cm
Artist Frans Hals
Year 1625 (1625)
Catalogue Seymour Slive, Catalog 1974: #23
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 76 cm × 52 cm (30 in × 20 in)
Location Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel
Accession GK215

Two singing boys with a lute and a music book is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625 and now in the Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe.

Painting

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote: "TWO BOYS SINGING. B. 98; M. 224 - The boy on the right is seen in a three-quarter view facing left. He is in dark clothes with a white collar and a plumed cap. He holds in his left hand a mandolin resting on the table, while he beats time with his right hand. He looks down to the left at an open music-book on the table. Behind him to the left is the head of another boy, who looks at the music and sings with him. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram; canvas, 26 inches by 20 1/2 inches."[1]

Hals has "an accomplice" peering over his shoulder, and besides the other two paintings already mentioned, this theme of a main subject with a secondary witness was common to many of his paintings of the 1620s:

References

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